A blog about genealogy and thoughts about the various roots and branches of my family tree as well as the times in which my ancestors lived.Included are the West, White,and McFarland families.WARNING:DO NOT TAKE ALL OF MY FAMILY RECORDS AS GOSPEL. ALWAYS CONFIRM YOUR OWN RESEARCH!

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Thursday, November 08, 2007

BLOGGING BRUNCH12

Well, I guess Autumn is finally here. It certainly is chilly enougharound here to bundle up a bit and huddle around the computerfor warmth.

Okay, it’s not quite that bad. But I do have my hooded sweatshirton and a hot cup of coffee at hand as I browse the genealogy blogsand news.

First off I read the new CoG that Blaine Bettinger hosted overon his Genetic Genealogist. Of course it’s been out a few days andI’d already gone through it once but it was late at night at the endof a long day of work so I went back and reread all the posts again.The theme was genealogical mysteries and brick walls and howDNA testing might help solve them and Blaine made commentson how each blogger might go about doing it. A great Carnival ofGenealogy all around!

I didn’t contribute this time around. I’d already posted about theElusive John C. before and really couldn’t come up with anotherproblem that DNA testing would break down for me. The nextedition is going to be a Carousel edition on any topic so I’ll havesomething ready for that one. The submissions deadline isNovember 15th, so if you’ve never contributed to it before, now’syour chance!

Then I made my usual rounds of my favorite blogs. Randy Seaverat Genea-Musings has a couple of posts of what I would callGenealogy Rock…adaptations of old rock songs with lyrics aboutgenealogy. Hmmm. I’m going to have to see if I can come up withone myself. And there’s also an interesting post about the Motherof All GenealogyDatabases. Randy gives a few examples of how itdoes or doesn’t work based on some recent experiences.

I'd seen a news report about it last night on tv but informationat Chris Dunham’s The Genealogue made me do some googlingabout the grave robbery at Bible Hill Cemetery in Hillsborough,N.H.. Some of my family such as the Ellingwoods lived there soI looked up Sarah Symonds and found her name on a Kimball Family website. I learned there that her mother was LucyKimball and that she was descended from Henry Kimball, sonof Richard Kimball and Ursula Scott. I’m also a descendentthrough Thomas Kimball, another of Richard’s sons.

Irregardless of the connection, I’d still be disgusted by whoeverdesecrated Sarah Symond’s grave. I cannot understand whatreason anyone would have to do such a thing.

Finally, a note of Tropical Storm Noel. I mentioned that mysister likes to go out in storms. (I tend to huddle down in myhobbit hole and wait them out.) Well, technology has brought achange of habit for her. The last time she went out in somethingthis big the waves were flooding Ocean St. in Marshfield and shedecided that salt water was not a good thing for her car.

This time around, she found a website showing the surf fromthe storm and watched the waves by webcam!